as in obsessions
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
their weight is an unfortunate fixation for many teenagers
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Recent Examples of fixations
As much is clear in the vivid animation, layered jokes, and peculiar fixations — an endearing combination that heightens what could’ve been a forgettable series.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026
Several policy priorities followed from Miller’s long-standing fixations, such as denying immigrants work authorization while their legal cases were pending and penalizing applicants who used public benefits.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
But while his own work is marked by coincidences and unexpected bookends, some provided by the universe and some engineered by the filmmaker, at its core, it’s defined by an unswerving faith in the boundless eccentricities and fascinating fixations of other people.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2026
With no ping-pong-ball fixations after last season’s 36-win season, the Suns are instead sending out a gritty, undersized squad that has overachieved its way to a 24-15 start in the unforgiving Western Conference — even with key offseason acquisition Jalen Green playing only two games.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
May’s fixations include fragmented narratives, portraits of place, boundaries and borders, and collective memory.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
The lines between life and art, truth and fiction, get mighty blurry in Trier’s emotionally expansive, extremely wry film, though the family drama itself is just a spine on which to hang any number of other fixations and preoccupations.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
The world Maddie lives in is populated by eccentric characters who wear their respective fixations on their sleeve.
—Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026
Several policy priorities followed from Miller’s long-standing fixations, such as denying immigrants work authorization while their legal cases were pending and penalizing applicants who used public benefits.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
But while his own work is marked by coincidences and unexpected bookends, some provided by the universe and some engineered by the filmmaker, at its core, it’s defined by an unswerving faith in the boundless eccentricities and fascinating fixations of other people.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2026
With no ping-pong-ball fixations after last season’s 36-win season, the Suns are instead sending out a gritty, undersized squad that has overachieved its way to a 24-15 start in the unforgiving Western Conference — even with key offseason acquisition Jalen Green playing only two games.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
May’s fixations include fragmented narratives, portraits of place, boundaries and borders, and collective memory.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
The lines between life and art, truth and fiction, get mighty blurry in Trier’s emotionally expansive, extremely wry film, though the family drama itself is just a spine on which to hang any number of other fixations and preoccupations.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
The world Maddie lives in is populated by eccentric characters who wear their respective fixations on their sleeve.
—Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fixations
obsessions
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As the bustling capital of Japan, Tokyo is home to hundreds of museums, ranging from august institutions with endless catalogs of national treasures to niche collections of curious obsessions (Looking at you, Meguro Parasitological Museum).—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Mar. 2026
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For a man who did such fundamental research in surface chemistry and who won the Nobel Prize, there is something almost tragic about the scientific obsessions that took hold of him in his later years.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Fixations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fixations. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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